Weather and climate

Moremi Game Reserve weather

What it is doing right now, what the next two weeks look like, and what each month of the year means for the game viewing.

Right now in the park

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The next two weeks

Straight from the forecast, updated when you open this page. Useful if you are packing. Not useful for choosing a month, which is what the year below is for.

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The year at a glance

Bars are rainfall, the line is the daytime high. Thirty-year averages. The green band marks the months this park is at its driest, which is when most people want to be here.

Rainfall in millimetres along the bottom. Highest month 161 mm, daytime highs from 9.9 to 36.5 degrees.

Every month, and what it means for the wildlife

The temperature tells you what to pack. The rainfall column decides what you will see.

Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	What that means here
January	30.5°C	20.7°C	161 mm	21	Peak rain (around 100 mm a month) and the hardest months: thick bush, dispersed game, waterlogged tracks and possible closures. Superb birding, lowest rates, and the national fishing ban runs these two months.
February	29.7°C	20.3°C	117 mm	16	Peak rain (around 100 mm a month) and the hardest months: thick bush, dispersed game, waterlogged tracks and possible closures. Superb birding, lowest rates, and the national fishing ban runs these two months.
March	30.8°C	19.7°C	64 mm	10	Rains taper, animals finish raising young, roads recover and the first floodwater arrives in April. Quiet, green and excellent value.
April	30.9°C	17.7°C	12 mm	2	Rains taper, animals finish raising young, roads recover and the first floodwater arrives in April. Quiet, green and excellent value.
May prime	27.8°C	13.6°C	3 mm	0	The dry season begins and the flood spreads. Very good game viewing, ideal boating, shoulder rates: the best value-to-quality month of the year.
June prime	25.3°C	10.7°C	1 mm	0	Top tier begins. Game concentrates, wild dogs den, the flood keeps rising. Nights fall to around freezing in open country, so pack real winter layers for dawn drives.
July prime	25.1°C	9.9°C	0 mm	0	The flood peaks in mid-winter: prime boating, prime game viewing, peak rates and the busiest campsites. July mornings are the coldest of the year.
August prime	28.7°C	12.4°C	0 mm	0	The flood peaks in mid-winter: prime boating, prime game viewing, peak rates and the busiest campsites. July mornings are the coldest of the year.
September	33.8°C	17.3°C	5 mm	1	Still excellent, and the big elephant and buffalo herds are at their densest along the Khwai and the lagoons as the flood recedes. Hazy, dramatic light.
October	36.5°C	20.9°C	18 mm	4	Superb big game and punishing heat: mean maximums near 35°C and days over 40°C are common. Water activities become limited as the flood drops.
November	33.2°C	20.7°C	66 mm	12	First rains break the heat, game is still good but dispersing, mokoro improves locally, and shoulder-season bargains appear.
December	31.6°C	20.7°C	118 mm	17	The green season proper: storms, breeding plumage, newborn antelope, low rates and deteriorating roads.

Climate figures are Open-Meteo climate normals, 1991 to 2020, taken at -19.3, 23.3. The wildlife column is ours, from the sources on the best time to visit page. Averages hide bad years: a dry January still happens, and so does a wet July.